Mammal Stereotypes - Chipmunks - 9 - Page 1 Hyperactive, lovable
These small mammals fulfill several important functions in forest ecosystems.
Their activities harvesting and hoarding tree seeds play a crucial role in
seedling establishment. They consume many different kinds of fungi, including
those involved in symbiotic mycorrhizal associations with trees, and are an
important vector for dispersal of the spores of subterranean sporocarps
(truffles) which have co-evolved with these and other mycophagous mammals and
thus lost the ability to disperse their spores through the air.
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